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Colin Pitchfork (born 23 March 1960) is an English child-murderer and child-rapist. He was the first person convicted of rape and murder using DNA profiling after he murdered two girls in neighbouring Leicestershire villages: Lynda Mann in Narborough in November 1983 and Dawn Ashworth in Enderby in July 1986.
His discovery is first put to use in an immigration case, successfully proving the parentage of a young Ghanaian boy and preventing his deportation. The acceptance of Jeffreys’s findings in a court of law opens the door to DNA testing, and he and his university laboratory are swamped by paternity and immigration cases.
This was the first use of DNA fingerprinting in a criminal investigation, and the first to prove a suspect's innocence. [96] The following year Colin Pitchfork was identified as the perpetrator of the same murder, in addition to another, using the same techniques that had cleared Buckland.
Hawley Harvey Crippen (11 September 1862 – 23 November 1910), colloquially known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser who was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen.
He is first cousins with infamous criminal Larry Murphy and attended school with him. [6] [7] During house to house inquires following the discovery of Rynn's body, Lawler admitted to being in the area at the time of the crime. He subsequently gave a blood sample in February 1996. The DNA match returned in July 1996 and further tests confirmed ...
Joyce Gilchrist (January 11, 1948 – June 14, 2015) [1] was an American forensic chemist who was accused of falsifying evidence in order to help prosecutors in Oklahoma.She participated in more than 3,000 criminal cases in 21 years while working for the Oklahoma City Police Department.
Brain is considered the first IBM PC compatible virus, and the program responsible for the first IBM PC compatible virus epidemic. The virus is also known as Lahore, Pakistani, Pakistani Brain, and Pakistani flu as it was created in Lahore , Pakistan, by 19-year-old Pakistani programmer Basit Farooq Alvi and his brother, Amjad Farooq Alvi.
Robert Tappan Morris (born November 8, 1965) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the Morris worm in 1988, [3] considered the first computer worm on the Internet. [4] Morris was prosecuted for releasing the worm, and became the first person convicted under the then-new Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ...